The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.

Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.

I am not thoughtless but am prepared for anything and as a result can wait patiently for whatever the future holds in store, and I'll be able to endure it.

Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.

Now there is music from which a man can learn something.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.